"Wouldn’t life be worth living,Wouldn’t dreams be coming true?If we kept the Christmas spirit,All the whole year through."- Carolyn Wells.

Christmas at the Galleries Lafayette dome

On the cusp of 2012’s last day, with that eternal hope, we move on to the next year, a little older, and a little wiser.

I would like to pour a glass of champagne and toast in the New Year with you but as I can’t, I can offer something that will give you pleasure that will certainly have more lasting value. Check out one of the chapter’s from Particular Passions: Talks with Women who Have Shaped our Times which recounts the rich oral histories of pioneering women of the twentieth century from the arts and sciences, athletics and law, mathematics and politics.

It isn’t "the bubbly", but it’s cheaper than champagne…(if you were to buy it)…It’s only $0.99 and I know these stories will inspire you going in to the New Year.

Try the Tatyana Grosman chapter. What she did with her life will touch your soul and make you realize anything is possible.

"One of those rare, rare books that pick your life up, turn it around and point it in the right direction." — K.T. Maclay